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Anders Behring Breivik, a 32-year-old from Oslo, has confessed to murdering 76 Norwegians in a shooting and bombing spree last Friday.

When the bomb exploded outside the prime minister’s office in Oslo, a Muslim terrorist group called Ansar al-Jihad al-Alami, which means Helpers of the Global Jihad, took credit.

But they were lying. It was the work of a lone madman — although Breivik told a judge there are two other cells of activists also operating.

Whether or not that’s true remains to be seen — or whether it’s part of Breivik’s bizarre mind. In a 1,500-page manifesto Breivik released just before his spree, he says he’s a member of the Knights Templar, an order of soldiers that fought the crusades, but was disbanded 800 years ago.

He even talks about Dan Brown’s conspiracy theory novels about the Christian church.

His rambling manifesto said he hopes his murder spree starts a global revolution. He actually called himself “a perfect example which should be copied, applauded and celebrated.”

So he thinks he’s a knight.

He thinks knights go and kill innocent people with car bombs and at summer camps.

Half of Breivik’s manifesto is cut-and-paste essays from people ranging from the Unabomber to Winston Churchill to Gandhi to even modern-day bloggers.

But Breivik has turned it into justification for murdering people.

So a murderer quotes Gandhi. So a fascist quotes Churchill. A Satanist calls himself a Christian soldier.

But that was enough to shift the coverage in the mainstream media.

They were positively relieved, even thrilled, the mass murder here was done by someone who wasn’t Muslim.

CBC news anchors started repeating every hour: The murderer was by a “Christian fundamentalist” who hated Muslims.

Except Breivik didn’t actually kill any Muslims — he went after the Norwegian government and its ruling liberal party.

And the Christian part? He hadn’t been to a church since he was a teenager. His manifesto said the opposite.

He wrote, “I guess I’m not an excessively religious man. I am first and foremost a man of logic.”

And “myself and many more like me do not necessarily have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and God.”

Nothing else about his own beliefs in 1,500 pages. But the CBC calls him a Christian fundamentalist.

The mass murder in Norway is a horrendous crime. It is also a terrible tragedy.

But here Breivik’s crimes have turned into the greatest political opportunity liberals have received in years.

Left-wing opportunists now have their poster boy: A Christian they can now use as a counter-example whenever anyone is concerned about the war on terror.

But that’s not even the main goal of the CBC and their kind.

They want to discredit some of the ideas Breivik listed in his 1,500-page ramble.

Breivik quoted liberals like Charles Darwin and Richard Dawkins and environmentalists like the Unabomber. But his main thesis was his worry about radical Islam in the West.

And that is what the CBC wants to do: To associate being concerned about radical Islam with this mass murderer. They want to delegitimize peaceful, liberal discussions of these matters, by tainting them with murder.

That’s why the CBC is lusting after the story with such unseemly jubilation: It’s their answer to 9/11, proof of Christianity’s evil and conservatism’s evil.